14th APRiL ~ HISTORY ON THIS DAY

April 14th ~ This Day in History video by History.com ~ 1865: Lincoln was shot : John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. on the 14th April 1865. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. | & more about history on this day in the video…